Ronald Linn Rivest (/rɪˈvɛst/; born May 6, 1947) is a cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics...
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RSA (cryptosystem) (redirect from Rivest-Shamir-Adleman)
secure data transmission. The initialism "RSA" comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who publicly described the algorithm...
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RC algorithm (redirect from Rivest's Cipher)
encryption algorithms invented by Ron Rivest. The "RC" may stand for either Rivest's cipher or, more informally, Ron's code. Despite the similarity in their...
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in a thought experiment. The Alice and Bob characters were invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman in their 1978 paper "A Method for Obtaining...
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encryption standards. RSA was named after the initials of its co-founders, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, after whom the RSA public key cryptography...
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cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir...
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the chaff is discarded. The cryptographic technique was conceived by Ron Rivest and published in an on-line article on 18 March 1998. Although it bears...
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block cipher designed by Ron Rivest in 1987. "RC" stands for "Ron's Code" or "Rivest Cipher"; other ciphers designed by Rivest include RC4, RC5, and RC6...
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being listed in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list. He is the son of Ron Rivest, the cryptographer and founder of RSA. "Semiconductors and Semiconductor...
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Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure (SDSI, pronounced sudsy) by Ron Rivest and Butler Lampson. The original SPKI had identified principals only as...
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